Full Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?
Contents
List of Figures and Tables Preface PART ONE. A CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1. An Extraordinary Time 2. Clark Kerr 3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea 4. The Uses of the University 5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth 6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland 7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? PART TWO. CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD 8. The Idea Spreads 9. Participation without Limit 10. The Spread of Science 11. The Global Multiversity 12. Systems and Stratification 13. American Universities in the Global Space 14. Enter the Dragon 96 15. Higher Education in China and the United States PART THREE. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA 16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr 17. The Impossibility of Public Good 18. The Impossibility of Taxation 19. Economic and Social Inequality 20. Unequal Opportunity 21. Higher Education and the Economy 22. Higher Education and Society Epilogue: After the Dream Notes References Index
